It's been viewed, reviewed and over-analyzed, but NASO President Barry Mano watched the play from a perspective unlike most others.

"That the game ended poorly officiated is not good. It's a travesty," Mano said.

Mano is the president of the National Association of Sports Officials, a nonprofit trade organization based in Racine, which also publishes Referee Magazine.

All of the locked-out regular NFL refs are members but so are thousands of high school and college refs, putting the organization in an unusual position.

"Many of the replacements are also our members," Mano said.

The trade group is not affiliated with the referees' union, but Mano believes it's time for the labor dispute to end.

"I know the games have to go on, but this isn't working. The integrity of the game is being questioned. The outcomes of games are being questioned," Mano said.

He said the replacement referees made several mistakes on the final play of that game.

"Certain fundamental things did not happen! The table was set for failure," Mano said.

He called the officiating, and the fallout that followed, an embarrassment to the profession.

"I want proper officiating. I want the architecture of officiating to facilitate the game fairly played by the rules. That's not what happened. For that, I can offer an apology, but I'm not sure it does much good," Mano said.

Mano said in the bigger picture, his concern is that officiating as a whole has taken a hit -- and that the profession now has to go even further to regain the confidence of fans.

The organization's editorial team met Tuesday morning to discuss how it plans to cover the controversy in the next issue of its magazine.

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